party congress alone might first need to pass high school american history that's ahead of tonight's poll times like now there's talk of g.o.p. senators not raising the debt ceiling here in the let's go what would that mean for the u.s. and for the global economy i think with dean baker the co-director of the center for economic and policy research. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime. i think. he'd done well. we never got that says we're going to keep you safe get ready because you're going to look for freedom.

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hey guys welcome to shelly tell me alone a show we've heard our guests have to say on the topic now i want to hear. just go on to you tube to video response or to twitter for fun of the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday to show your responses. your voice. ok it's time for tonight's tools on the war tea party wing nuts and possible presidential candidate michele bachmann made her first trip to new hampshire this weekend from the minnesota congresswoman is flirting with a run for the white house next year but anybody out there with a house brain knows that thankfully she has absolutely no chance in hell of getting the nomination but that's not going to stop her from trying so over the weekend she was in manchester speaking with students and conservative activists and just listen as she encouraged those living in the granite state to be proud of their role in

the revolutionary war. began here a little bit you are seeing the liberty you're just the. wrong what. you put a marker of and apparently michelle missed american history one o one that shot that started america's war for independence didn't happen in new hampshire it was fired over in massachusetts now soon after the gaffe bachmann posted a message on her facebook page that said so i misplaced the battle's concord and lexington by saying they were in new hampshire it was my mistake that's a choose this is where they happened new hampshire is where they are were they are still proud of it now a few hours later she posted again on facebook saying and by the way that will be the last time i borrow president obama's teleprompter but is is so funny michelle you see there's a reason the president uses the teleprompter so he doesn't make stupid mistakes.

public now this is not michelle's first screw up either going to come to american history and in january speech the tea party leader invoked her love of the founding fathers who quote worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the united states except for michele bachmann many of the founders like george washington thomas jefferson well they were slave owners who would say it wasn't until the mid eighteen hundreds that slavery even became a contentious issue in american politics never mind that this is a woman who arranged constitution classes for fellow members of the house earlier this year so maybe they should hold us history classes instead and that's why michele bachmann is tonight's true time winner. nearly two months after the deadly shooting spree in arizona the left a congresswoman and twelve others injured and six innocent victims that president obama has decided to tiptoe into the topic of gun control here in the u.s. now the president used the shooting spree in tucson to highlight the need for

a discussion on gun control but two months later and in our bed in the arizona daily caller obama called for enforcement of current laws on the books including proper implementation of the national instant criminal background check system a push for greater state a state court a nation and to make the system faster and nimbler so now the president's getting involved in the gun control debate is that what this all is calling on law enforcement to do a better job is obama really going out on a limb here all so far the president's op ed is flying under the radar here in the u.s. due to the earthquake in japan dominating the news cycle but leave it to fox news to hype it up in a headline article this morning with obama starts pushing gun control now of course we expect pox news a take on obama on just about anything well they are the mouthpiece of the g.o.p. in the n.r.a. but so far there really hasn't been all that much pushback today from gun advocates and that's probably because obama really didn't say anything aggressive or revolutionary in this op ed but gun owners were fearful of obama before he was even

elected he member when then senator obama made his famous gun gaffe that caused an uproar in the primary which mean he and hillary clinton. ok. playing to their guns and religion yeah that wasn't such a smart move by candidate obama and he seemed to have learned his lesson here is comments many gun owners were convinced that despite all evidence to the contrary that obama was elected he would instantly take their guns away so people rushed to the gun stores to stock up the f.b.i. so the background checks during the last three months of two thousand and eight went up forty two percent obama was elected in november of two thousand and eight

and that happened in two thousand and sided now forty two percent that's a shocking number and i mean ish and sales also increased dramatically we're going to owners i don't think you have anything to fear with this latest on bad years that obama's not about whole or change he's just about the status quo when it comes to gun control in the us and of course not pissing off the gun lobby. anonymous is back and just as they've been talking about the hacker group has released a series of internal e-mails dealing with bank of america who leaked personal documents are from a series of correspondences between a b. of a employee and somebody from balgo insurance who used to be a part of the bank now even though this leak was teased all week and we should mention that they're not the same leaks that julian assange has been talking about from a major u.s. bank and even though the documents are no available thanks to anonymous nobody knows how much they can actually damage the reputation of the bank however we do know that e-mails have to do with the ways that b.

of a handle foreclosures and frankly many out there are questioning if this process was done ethically which would probably come as an absolute shock to know what now according to the informant the e-mails use code terms to pass along information between the two companies requesting that the low numbers be purposefully mismatched from the documents encouraging foreclosure now i'm no expert when it comes to foreclosures and frankly these e-mails use so many code terms that it's really difficult to tell how much of an impact smudging these documents really is for troubled homeowners but nonetheless the information's out there anybody can check out the files at bank of america suck dot com and that's without b.s. on the end by the way and here's another little lovely gem of information to point out regarding this website he never had a few months ago he evaded some preemptive damage control i first got out about a potentially from the bank they bought up all the domain names that could be used against them anything with the word sucks or blows and bank of america bank

executive bank of america executives names but it turns out that they skipped a very very obvious what sucks with out the us come on guys i mean whoever you are hired to grab all those names clearly didn't think about the one letter difference so i wait and see how much damage these e-mails can do it does give us a glimpse into the practices of bank of america when it comes to foreclosures pretty much everyone already suspects b. of a that they were up to no good after we learned of robo sires giving their john hancock on foreclosures we'll have more proof that the public has on their scheming activities the better the chance of exposing these guys for who they are. now according to the treasury department unless congress votes to raise the debt limit somewhere between april fifth and may thirty first the fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling will be reached and if the rescue falls on its debt well we've heard the words you know used most to describe the situation as catastrophic calamitous basically it just won't be very good but senate republicans

are apparently willing to toil with that risk over politics. well as you know i was talking about a certain there could be three democrats and forty seven republicans my prediction is not a single one of the forty seven republicans will vote to raise the debt ceiling unless it can include some credible. to do something about our debt. now a credible effort for republicans would mean in acting severe cuts to social security medicare and other state can have programs and it democrats have so far been willing to do that so with the clock ticking we have to wonder if this could actually happen if as austin goolsbee obama's council of economic advisers chairman said we're going to see the first in history caused purely by insanity earlier i caught up with dean baker the co-director of the center for economic and policy research i first asked him what he makes of the statement by mcconnell considering

that we've heard so many other republicans even john boehner lindsey graham paul ryan say they defaulting would be a disaster. well it's hard to know what they think they're doing i mean do they really intend to what the u.s. default on its debt it's an interesting question why i thought was true right but our financial sector is that really what they want to do i mean it's an interesting story it wouldn't be my first choice but suppose if they're going to save people why did you have social security and medicare are going to insure wall street i think most people say good for wall street do you think that this shows perhaps a divide between republicans in the house and in the senate or you know because republicans have their majority in the house and they feel like they can do whatever they want and the senate republicans feel like they have to play politics a little more well it's hard to know i mean i'm no expert on the relations between the house and senate republicans it's seems that the whole group of them has a hard idea figure out what it is exactly they want to do i mean even the same persons are consecutive days is not always consistent so i don't really know what

this means clue we don't have a unified agenda to be fighting among themselves or people randomly throwing things out there i have no idea now you know you just said that if we do in fact teeth on our debt that this would destroy wall street right everyone says it would be a financial disaster but what would that actually look like it would actually mean if world this would be would be we were in september. october of zero way where you would see a meltdown of the financial system and you know it would be some scary days it would mean if we literally defaulted it would permanently change change the situation of the u.s. and the world financial system you'd see you know a lot of tensions but you know the end of the day we're still going to be here so you know the model here is argentina which went through the sort of financial crisis back in two thousand and two it had a freefall its economy for three months they got back on their feet and eight years of very solid growth so it's not going to the end of the world i don't think we should do it but you know if you say ok the choices are getting rid of social security and medicare or this play well that's an easy one an easy one as to have

to let us have fought on the debt and yet have got i mean i don't see it here at all to care if you're talking about cutting the programs or programs of tens of millions of people paid into their dependence on so if you're saying ok we're going to cut our seniors loose or wall street gets or i think say that that's the more dangerous option for the united states here now i just wonder though do we even need a debt ceiling if we're just going to continue spending if we're constantly going to have to keep voting on raising the debt ceiling and every time becomes this political game what's the point of even having one it's a good question i actually don't even know the origins of it i don't you know i presume the idea was that somehow you're going to have congress or not so you keep in mind no money gets spent that congress doesn't appropriate so on the one hand you congress appropriating the money then they separately say ok we have to agree to let the government borrow spend the money we appropriated well the obvious trap his don't appropriate money you don't think should be spent so it's not clear what

the logic was i have to say i at least don't know what the roger because i'm pretty into it seems to think it should be it should be a governor perhaps the one that actually ever happened would anyone ever vote to eliminate that that feeling you wanted it would look you know that whoever voted for do be raises a big political issue and we can do that sometime in the lame duck session of congress for people who you know it's it is one of these things as i say it is just . so we so i think we would be best off not having to do this ritual every six months year or longer you know it's extended for even that americans really know if they wind up with a lot of people action in november and republicans swept in and if you look at public polling americans will say that they want the government to cut spending but then at the same time they obviously don't want any kind of cuts to come from social security or medicare or medicaid but those are the largest programs that's what we spend the most money on so is there a little bit of a confusion between what what sounds good and what the reality is will people are very badly informed by the media so you get somebody like john mccain running

around the country talking about the one million dollar would start and say i have no idea whether that was a good use of government money or not but the reality is whether we spent it or not we would have to change a single government publication because it's such a trivial amount in terms of the whole budget you often get very small amounts blown off the reality is most of us don't see million dollars we certainly don't see a billion and no one's going to see a trillion so most people have very little idea of what sort of sums are involved in various programs and i really blame the media because they will allow a john mccain to go out there and talk about this one million dollars woodstock museum without of course senator mccain you know this is a meaningless item in the budget they don't do that so it encourages people to spread misinformation as a result most people don't have a clue where their money is being spent how far do you think this could really go if we were just toying with the idea that we we're not really sure what mcconnell is saying here it seems to always be a back and forth but could they you know essentially just hold the economy hostage all from politics up until the very last minute will be hanging on the brink will

if the possible for the democrats to buckle on cutting social security medicare there's many who would like to but if it's not possible because their base is very angry then i think would be a day that republicans are going to want to wall street. right and i thank you very much for joining us and you know i hope you're right i hope there is unlikely i hope we don't see this financial disaster meltdown and the entire country falling on its back thanks thanks for a min. so to come on tonight's show a cosmos for the jihad it's a no knock it for your show you a look at this new vaccines and all that and then couldn't movies and t.v. are the reason that islamophobia is sweeping across the us was the topic with radio host sample journalist david serota as well as return to. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through that sort of way who can you trust no one will is imbue it with the

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. hey guys welcome to show and tell on the alone a show we've heard with our guests not to say on the topics now we want to hear from our audience does go on to use you does video respond or to twitter for part of the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday in the show your responses during the week later global economy. bring it back to a few months ago when we first told you about the english language just hottest magazine inspire now it turns out that the jihadist movement is expanding their publishing repertoire and this time they're paying attention to the female

demographic according to several reports the latest magazine to hit newsstands is all shamita which translates to the majestic woman and eyes you can see the front cover as an image of a woman in a burka next to the barrel of a gun and according to the editor a large number of the writers are females to you and the editor also says that this magazine was a long time coming as half of the world's population is female it's in their best interest to be informed of those who are enemies of islam and we showed you the front cover but wait till you find out what's inside if you flip through those pages you'll find all the latest on skin care for the ladies of jihad and read carefully they always recommend staying indoors to protect their skins complection from those damaging u.v. rates and of course always remember to. now for the single ladies they've got entire section dedicated to helping you find your main man and obviously they encourage women to follow their advice so that they can marry. and for some more

in-depth reading there are even personal accounts from the wives of martyrs here praise it and honoring their husbands for sacrificing their lives for the sake of jihad now that is just a few glimpses but all joking aside these are all real elements of what's going to be included in a magazine beauty tips and how to find a jihad as husband all in one now the real question here is it will this magazine be flying off the shelves it's clearly a sign that al qaeda is trying to reach a larger audience so let's just hope that this glossy you harvest version of cosmo doesn't actually become a success. now radicalization of turn to terrorism is clearly a problem around the world but it's not just a problem within one community unlike what fox news will try to tell you all to. terrorists are not muslim and in fact since nine eleven right wing extremist and white supremacist terror plots of outnumber those of muslims here in the us according to a january two thousand and eleven terrorism statistics report i got last week peter

king began hearings on the radicalization on capitol hill king and others will try to tell you that it's because islamic terrorism is a new threat because nine eleven is still fresh in americans' minds and that's why other radicalization doesn't count or at least doesn't deserve any type of congressional investigation but what if we told you the anti muslim sentiment in the u.s. has origins from the one nine hundred eighty s. from movies to games the infusion of muslims are the bad guys all eyes in our pop culture that's what our guest tonight is arguing joining me from our studio in new york is radio host political journalist and author of the book back to our future gave it's a rope david thanks so much for joining us tonight now ok i didn't move to the u.s. until nine hundred ninety and even if i had been born here i would be a little bit too young to remember so tell me exactly what from the eighty's specifically you know started injecting this islamophobia. well look you've had a lot of movies that used the muslim fundamentalist terrorists as the go to bad guy

an example is back to the future the movie with michael j. fox which made us think about in terms of this issue but remember he is fleeing he's fleeing urban to be really the suburbs and the modern times into the nine hundred fifty s. and who is he fleeing from he's fleeing from libyan terrorists there was a whole set of movies about hijackings of the delta force chuck norris delta force as a good example you also had a choice like g.i. joe which was also a comic book where their main enemy were it was a terrorist organization and in the comic book it was in islam a terrorist organization so you had all sorts of different products and children that used the muslim terrorists as the bad guy one of their own name for you which is a big one of monk kids was were it was pro wrestling the bad guy in pro wrestling was the iron sheik and i'm not trying to make the one to one relationship and i'm not

trying to say that because there was the iron sheik in the w.w. effort because g.i. joe was was fighting islamic fundamentalists that means only that we've become. islamophobia what i'm saying though is that that medium and those products in the one nine hundred eighty s. directed at children had a profound impact on what we do we define as the bad guy now. being someone who was born in russia i feel like the russians are always the bad guys in the movie like yes now we see you know some muslim terrorists there are you know the that evil arab guys but i feel like it's always been the russians for a really really really long time. well and that's before the one nine hundred eighty s. that was certainly true there were a number of cold war movies that made the russians out to be a man in the united states and the navy there were some eighty's movies at the at the in the middle of the eighty's that this is well rocky for is a good example but in the middle and late eighty's that started transitioning to

the islamic fundamentalists and let's be clear a lot of these movies took their lead from real but sporadic events in the real world i mean you had the lebanon bombing the u.s. barracks in lebanon you had a hijacking of the t.w.a. flight what these products did was take those real sporadic events by individual islamic fundamentalists and create an entire entertainment out of them to transition the bogeyman of the cold war russians in the unit into american pop culture to make it now what it is today which is the muslim and we have equated through that pop culture muslim to equal terrorist yeah i guess you know if you really think about it the fact that these games these t.v. shows these movies the fact that pop culture really does influence our lives you know what other dangers do that hold me does that make the world a little too simplistic a little too black and white. absolutely i mean that's the thing with it with pop culture almost by its very definition in the modern age it's using stereotypes it's

using shorthand and so we're always looking for the easiest way to signify a bad guy or signifie good guy again the perfect example of this is the gobi w.f. pro-wrestling the quickest way to tell a kid this character was a bad guy was to say that he's an iranian terrorist so we have made up muslim equal terrorist with equal shorthand for bad guy and the danger of course as you say as you suggest is that there's no nuance to it it blames entire populations for the actions of individual extremists if you think that are needed the exact same thing through i think you have a generation that grew up in the eighty's being told as a kid that the muslims are the bad guy and now you have entire news channels dedicated to doing the exact same thing don't you. they're speaking the exact language that's exactly right in the one nine hundred eighty s. a lot of the popular culture of the entertainment culture was as one video game executive said at the time ripped straight from the headlines so that was the

beginning really of the fusion of entertainment and news media and today we're still speaking that language both in entertainment and in news media this is why when you have news channels or news reports that automatically equate muslim with terrorists one point five billion muslims most of whom are not terrorists but equating that entire population with all of them being terrorists are making that implication they're speaking that same language that we learn to speak when we were kids in the one nine hundred eighty s. ok david very quickly who is going to be the next big bad guy in american pop culture is that the chinese. you know i think i think it may be the chinese because the because of the economic competition i think it really might be the chinese i mean the chinese have been have been stereotyped before in american popular culture of the japanese of course in the one nine hundred eighty s. in terms of economic competition we're stereotype but i think you may see that as the economic competition gets gets more times than i think we already see even in this past election cycle david thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you. now

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